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Hello, Pelli ^___^
Yes, I was referring to Raito as we saw him in the very first episode : gloomy, acting high and mighty, thinking, as he said himself, that the "world is rotten".
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The doppelganger situation, to sum it up.

Yo, hitokirigirl ^_^ (by the way, is there a shorten form of your nick? ^^)

Yes I agree. Antonik's post completed what I had in mind: Light's personality change is unrelated to the loss of Death Note (since in your post you were wondering if DN had new features such as changing characters), and so yeah, a simple flow of events leads him to be different. Of course, as Shiroth noticed, he's quite in a pinch now, weeks and months of undeserved detention (because in Light's eyes, that's how it is, injustice), and loss of freedom may only bring to strong motivation and determination. Hence, the changement

It seems that the "normal" Light is finally in front of a problem not as easy to solve as the ones the previous "normal" Light, the easygoing genius, was so used with.

this show just keeps on with the mind-crackers.
you really have to pay attention to follow the story.
though I think I have a really good idea of what Light's plan was when he chose to forget the Death Note, I still think I will be surprised in the next 3-4 episodes.

I can't stand Light being so nice, because I'm used to him being this ruthless, apathetic killer. But I don't think it's an act. Sure, he can masquerade his killing intent while he had the note, but by looking at his face, you can tell he was planning something evil. So either the Death Note is evil (which it isn't provided by Misa's state and the Shinigamis) or discarding the Death Note has more consequences than just memory lost of the note. Maybe it's also a lost of a killing intent, a rebirth.

yar, with the demise of Light's Note, this thing seems to have fallen apart. without that "what clever shenanigan comes next, and how will Light/L demonstrate that they accounted for it with an even CLEVERER shenanigan!?" suspense engine, a harsh light falls on this scurvy pack of rerun characters: hardboiled cop destined to die 2 days before retirement, comic relief rookie sidekick, and the Yagami family as square as a unit of area.

but L looks worst of all. yo! Batman called--he wants Alfred back! without even a Bruce Wayne backstory (and with the random skyscraper building antics), everything that was "mysterious" and "eccentric" starts to look a lot more "contrived" and "hollow" as we realize that this dude can deus ex machina anything. I mean, he's _L_, man! he totally saw your speculation about his backstory coming, which proves that Light must be Kira!--and the crowd goes "ooh!," because we know he's right. as I haven't been following these threads, I figure there's been some discussion of the odd fact that the investigation has centered on figuring out who is behind the killings, and not how in the world the killings take place, since there's no obvious reason to assume that a person is capable. it'd be more likely to e.g. keep high-profile criminals in sensor-loaded rooms to determine the mechanism that induces their heart attacks etc. at which point L could show off his Shinto priest powers by divining the work of Shinigami with one of them broom looking things. but obviously there's less psycho-drama there. unless he has to get past Freddy Kruger in fine dream warrior style.

so, fresh meat for both sides? maybe the show is just dogging it towards the end of this leg of the relay, with the baton soon passing on to another suspense scheme express. you know Light is going to get back in business eventually, and probably with a predictable bang...

Finally had the time to watch DN 18 properly . Mogi was bound to go he was cracking under pressure even in previous eps he was losing his cool for no reason . but the manner in which he made his exit was'nt pleasing at all . matsuda is being pushed around a lot , guess he is the comic releif . Dont know to laugh or feel bad for him .

L was dull in this ep with lil flashes of L-ness ( Karate ) Yotsuba group is looking intresting among the excutives there was a guy in Morphius ( Matrix ) get-up .